Flower Decoration In The Home

Antique holiday greeting post card
Circa 1908
Postmark Paris, France


 Flower arranging was considered a necessary skill for a lady, but those who hadn’t the eye or hand for it could turn to how-to articles (or hire someone to arrange the flowers for a dinner party or a ball!).
The woman on this French postcard looks like she's wishing she'd called someone instead of attempting a DIY.

During the Edwardian era, no country estate or housewife with any pretensions was without a garden or arrangement designed by Gertrude Jekyll, who literally wrote the book on the subject. Jekyll was regularly consulted in the leading and popular magazines and newspapers of the day, and her series of books written for Country Life cemented her position as a tastemaker.

". . . I always think that this, the time of Tulips, is the season of all the year when the actual arranging of flowers affords the greatest pleasure. The rush and heat of summer have not yet come; the days are still fairly restful, and one is so glad to greet and handle these early blossoms. There are not as yet too many flowers. The abundance of June, with its many floral distractions, is not yet upon one. Moreover, the early flowers that come on slowly last long in water. The flowers of middle and late summer, pushing quickly into life, much sooner fade; they come and go in a hurry—one feels that the time spent in setting them up is somewhat wasted. But the steadfast Tulips will last for nearly a week, thus giving a better return for the time devoted to them. "

— Flower Decoration in the House by Gertrude Jekyll

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